Was Steve Harvey's Miss Universe Gaffe staged?

Harvey crowned the wrong winner Sunday night, and suddenly, a pageant that had received little buzz was a top trending topic on Twitter. As AdWeek points out, "The whole scenario, frankly, felt like a twist from WWE's WrestleMania rather than from a hyperproduced global pageant.” And that includes a botched tweeted apology. Even though an intentional screw-up seems unlikely, skepticism abounds. PLUS: "Oh dear God," tweeted Miss America host Chris Harrison.

Director Jeremy Podeswa says co-creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff "Weiss and Benioff “were responsive to the discussion and there were a couple of things that changed as a result...It is important that (the producers) not self-censor. The show depicts a brutal world where horrible things happen. They did not want to be too overly influenced by that (criticism) but they did absorb and take it in and it did influence them in a way.”